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AI2Bot
Allen Institute for AI, a training and dataset crawler
- Operator
- Allen Institute for AI
- Type
- Model training and datasets
- Sent as a user agent
- Not confirmed
- Follows robots.txt
- Not confirmed
- Details
- Not yet checked against the operator's own documentation
What it does
Collects data for open research models such as OLMo.
We have not yet checked this page against Allen Institute for AI's own documentation. Check it before you rely on it.
Block it in robots.txt
User-agent: AI2Bot Disallow: /
To allow it again, remove those lines or use Allow: /. Rules for other bots are not affected.
Block it on your server
robots.txt is a request. To enforce the block, filter the user agent on your server.
Nginx
map $http_user_agent $blocked_bot {
default 0;
~*(AI2Bot) 1;
}
# inside server { }
if ($blocked_bot) { return 403; }Apache (.htaccess)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AI2Bot [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]Cloudflare custom rule (action: Block)
(lower(http.user_agent) contains "ai2bot")
Source
No official documentation link has been confirmed yet.